According to one of the sources, long-time executive Mira Murati told employees on Wednesday that a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star), precipitated the board’s actions.
The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q*, which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup’s search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.
Can someone help me understand, what does it mean by “smarter than humans”? Do those LLM just read internet text written by humans?
So the implication here is that the CEO knew about the breakthrough, but hid it from the board?
MSFT did experience a 20% climb over the last month. Maybe it was due to this news leaking out?
Ayyayyay the source for this. The news must be desperate to cash in on the drama. You have all these anonymous people pretending they work at OAI. Last one said that they had AGI internally. They used to do this with Google with conspiracy theories that Google was locking an AGI from everyone.
Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the company
I would take this with a heavy grain of salt.
I am slightly confused.
So, Sam Altman and collegues discovered a very powerful thing called Q*. This will make OpenAI very powerful and will make the board a lot of money.
So, why did this cause the board to fire him?
From the article, it seemed like the board was too afraid of Q* and fired him to stop it being released without proper security features.
Could someone please help clarify this?
Thanks.